Letters Give C.I.A. Tactics a Legal Rationale The Justice Department has told Congress that American intelligence operatives attempting to thwart terrorist attacks can legally use interrogation methods that might otherwise be prohibited under international law. The legal interpretation, outlined in recent letters, sheds new light on the still-secret rules for interrogations by the Central Intelligence […]
Iranian elections make Ahmadinejad ‘increasingly vulnerable’ The AP reports that according to final results today, conservatives “consolidated control of Iran’s legislature in run-off elections,” but at the same time, opponents of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad also gained strength in the Parliament. Reformists in Iran “favor greater democracy, closer ties with the West, and reducing clerical powers […]
O’Reilly and Gingrich on Bill Moyers’ interviewing Reverend Wright: O’Reilly Attacks Moyers For Interviewing Rev. Wright: BILL O’REILLY: "[they should] take a long vacation, perhaps in Iran." … BILL O’REILLY: Can you figure this guy out, Moyers? NEWT GINGRICH: Sure. Bill Moyers is a hard left sympathizer for anybody who dislikes America. And Reverend Wright’s […]
U.S. Weighing Readiness for Military Action Against Iran The nation’s top military officer said yesterday that the Pentagon is planning for "potential military courses of action" as one of several options against Iran, criticizing what he called the Tehran government’s "increasingly lethal and malign influence" in Iraq. Adm. Michael Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs […]
Television came to our house when I was in the 5th grade, but the only station was in Atlanta – 120 to the miles to the south. We could only watch at night [on clear nights] as the sound and picture came and went on the "snow" that covered the screen. By Junior High, Chattanooga […]
What the Petraeus Promotion Means Defense Secretary Robert Gates’s announcement Wednesday promoting General David Petraeus from his current post running the war in Iraq to head up U.S. Central Command triggered both political and military unease. That response may be inevitable, coming on the downside of an unpopular war and in the waning months of […]
Perhaps more telling than the record 63% opinion now that the War in Iraq was a mistake, is the slope of the line since the SURGE which began in January 2007. In spite of the constant hype that the SURGE is working, there is increasing retrospective disillusionment with the war having ever been started in […]
Rush Limbaugh Calling For Riots In Denver Talk Show Host Wants America To See Actions Of ‘Far Left’ Talk show host Rush Limbaugh is sparking controversy again after he made comments calling for riots in Denver during the Democratic National Convention this summer.He said the riots would ensure a Democrat is not elected as president, […]
Feith: ‘We Took An Extremely Strong Pro-Geneva Convention Position In The Pentagon’ FEITH: We took an extremely strongly pro-Geneva Convention position in the Pentagon. And what I said when I briefed Secretary Rumsfeld on this, and briefed the President on it, is we have troops all over the world. There is no country in the […]
Learning The Lessons Of Republican History, And Fighting Back By: Christy Hardin Smith [I’m making a plea today on behalf of more and better Democrats: we need more of them in office shaping the policies and actions of the Democratic party. Let’s call this another $10 day — pick a Blue America candidate of your […]